This diploma thesis focuses on changes in the system of sickness insurance in the Czech Republic since 2009. Based on the analysis of the development of social security in the context of neoliberal capitalism and economic globalization, the aim of the thesis was to reflect the ideological and factual basis and the legitimacy of the institutional change in the sphere of sickness insurance in connection with adoption of Act No. 187/2006 Coll., On sickness insurance and the discovery of socio-economic consequences of these changes. The theoretical basis of this thesis has been the institutional change in the sphere of sickness and the (non) legitimacy of the policy in this sphere of public finance reforms. Other theories have included the relationship of economic and social policy that they have been closely related to the theory of social state. The social state has been the beginning of the subject of aging, globalization and the recession of economic development in the last decades. In the empirical part of the thesis, with the use of the method of institutional analysis, critical discursive analyzes and interviews, the sphere of sickness insurance was examined in connection with the connection with the adoption of Act No. 187/2006 Coll., On sickness insurance and the socio-economic implications of...

Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are small (<3mm) blood feeding flies. These flies are biological vectors of viruses, protozoa and filarial nematodes affecting birds, humans, and other animals. Among the viruses transmitted those causing bluetongue (BT), African horse sickness (AHS) and epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EHD) are of major veterinary significance. Culicoides (Avaritia) imicola Kieffer, a proven vector of both AHS and BT viruses, is the most abundant and wide spread livestock-associated Culicoides species in South Africa. Field isolations of virus and oral susceptibility studies, however, indicated that a second Avaritia species, C. bolitinos Meiswinkel may be a potential vector of both BT virus (BTV) and AHS virus (AHSV). Differences in oral susceptibility, which are under genetic control, of populations from different geographical areas to viruses may be an indication of genetic differences between these populations, which may be the result of limited contact between these populations. A good knowledge of the distribution, spread and genetic structure of the insect vector is essential in understanding AHS or BT disease epidemiology. In the present study, an effort was made to gather field specimens of both C. imicola and C. bolitinos from different areas within their natural distribution in South Africa. The aim was to partially sequence two mitochondrial genes from these specimens and to analyse the sequence data making use of phylogenetic trees to clarify the genetic relationships between individuals or groups collected from geographically distinct sites. The two species were collected from four geographically separated areas in South Africa viz. Gauteng Province, Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province as well as the Free State Province. DNA was extracted from a total of 120 individual midges of the two Culicoides species using DNA extraction kits. Extracted DNA was analysed using PCR, sequencing as well as phylogenetic methods. A total of 117 mitochondrial DNA COI and 104 mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA Culidoides</i. sequences were analysed. DNA sequence polymorphism and phylogenetic relationships of various groups of C. imicola and C. bolitinos midges were determined. The results of the phylogenetic analysis of Culicoides populations using mitochondrial COI gene fragment showed that, at least one subpopulation of C. imicola and two distinct genotypes of C. bolitinos species do exist in South Africa, and further analysis is necessary. This study showed that COI has the potential to separate Culicoides midges based on their geography / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Veterinary Tropical Diseases / unrestricted

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE FAKULTA SOCIÁLNÍCH VĚD Institut sociologických studií Katedra veřejné a sociální politiky Soňa Zubrová Analysis of the health insurance system in the Czech Republic after year 1989 Abstrakt Praha 2011 Abstrakt The system of the Czech Republic health insurance stands for one of the pillars of the social security in the Czech Republic. Within last twenty years is has been changed significantly several times. The changes have been intended to contribute mainly to the reduction in the number of exploited sickness leaves, to the strengthening of responsibility of employees, employers and physicians. After 1989 the system faced many legal modifications. This thesis is focused on analysis of the health insurance system in the Czech Republic after year 1989. The theoretical resources of the thesis are human and social rights, social security and its principles. The main segment of the theoretical part of the thesis is a function of the right for social security and a description of health insurance. The exploratory part of the thesis analyses the chosen occurrences relating to the health insurance system problems and thereby it responds to questions asked in the introduction of the thesis. The research has proved a diminishing percentage of sickness leaves in connection with accepted...

SAKLETARHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET / THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SEARCHING FOR STUFF is Karolina Willebrand Vinnberg’s Independent Degree Project within the Master's Programme in Acting at Stockholm University of the Arts 2021-2023, examining and performing the Swedish children's book character Pippi Longstocking as if she were a museum artifact. With tools such as parody, intertextual analysis and immersive performance her hitherto (imagined) unknown inner life is excavated, dissected and exposed. This research also explores what happens in the encounter between actor and audience when performing and co-existing in an immersive museum space. The research process ended with a performative exhibition set in and produced in collaboration with The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts in Stockholm. This exhibition included seven scenographic installations and exhibit objects with associated audio guides, four video works and four immersive performances and an actress being present as the character of Pippi Longstocking throughout the days.

Bakgrund: Sjukfrånvaro har länge varit ett centralt och politiskt samhällsproblem i Sverige. En orsakande faktor för medarbetarnas ohälsa är stress och psykiska påfrestningar, vilket bland annat kan påverkas av ledarskap. Det finns olika ledarstilar som chefer kan tillämpa, vilka har olika påverkan på medarbetarnas hälsa. Dessa är transformativ och transaktionell ledarstil samt demokratisk eller relationsorienterad ledarstil och auktoritär eller uppgiftsorienterad ledarstil. Fördelaktigt för de anställdas hälsa är ledarskap som tillämpar Kaizen som arbetsmetod vilket förklaras som att verksamheten kontinuerligt ska förändras till det bättre. Således visar tidigare forskning att ledarskapet kan ha betydelse för medarbetarnas psykosociala hälsa på arbetsplatsen. Syfte: Studiens syfte är att beskriva och analysera skillnaden mellan chefers ledarskap på avdelningar med hög respektive låg sjukfrånvaro. För att besvara syftet utgår studien från teorier om ledarstilar och arbetsmetoden Kaizen. Metod: För att besvara studiens syfte har både chefers och medarbetares perspektiv på problemet tagits tillvara på i undersökningen genom en kvalitativ och kvantitativ studie med en iterativ växelverkan mellan deduktiv och induktiv ansats. En komparativ metod har genomförts då två jämförbara avdelningar, med hög respektive låg sjukfrånvaro, har studerats. Slutsats: Studiens resultat är att chefers ledarskap skiljer sig utifrån vilka ledarstilar som tillämpas samt i vilken grad chefer arbetar enligt Kaizen. Chefer som har olika ledarskap har även medarbetare med olika sjukfrånvaro, således kan chefers ledarskap ha betydelse för medarbetarnas sjukfrånvaro. / Background: Sickness absence have long been a central and political societal problem in Sweden. One factor that has caused employee’s ill health is job strain and psychic stress which may be influenced by leadership. There are different leadership styles that managers can apply which have different effects on employee health. These are transformative and transactional leadership styles as well as democratic or relationship-oriented leadership styles and authoritarian or task-oriented leadership styles. Advantageously for employee health is leaders who apply Kaizen as a working method. Kaizen can be described as continuous improvements. Thus, leadership is significant for employees' psychosocial health in the workplace. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the difference between managers' leadership in departments with high and low sick leave. To answer the purpose, the study is based on theories of leadership styles and the Kaizen method. Method: To answer the purpose of this study, both managers and employees have given their perspective to the problem. They have participated in the survey through a qualitative and quantitative study with an iterative interaction between deductive and inductive approach. The study has been carried out using a comparative method by studying two comparable departments with reported high or low sickness absence.   Conclusion: The result of this study is that the leadership differs according to the leadership styles applied and to what extent managers work according to Kaizen. Managers with different leadership also have employees with different sickness absence. Thus, manager’s leadership can be important for employees' sickness absence.

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The purpose of this paper is to determine what can be identified as the mystical element in Soren Kierkegaard’s published texts. Kierkegaard sometimes discusses mysticism on a critical tone, other times he seems to be implying that it is a necessary part of any authentically Christian life. Papers exploring this question have drawn different and conflicting conclusions. Some suggest that Kierkegaard’s spirituality focuses on asceticism and self-denial rather than mysticism, others perceive allusions to a form of a ‘mystical union’ as ever present in his texts. Some claim that in Kierkegaard’s texts there is the implication of different types of mysticism, some forms that he deems acceptable and other forms that he identifies as dangerous or even demonic. This paper proposes that the mystical element in Kierkegaard’s authorship is the presence of an itinerary that is meant to lead his readers through a process of internal transformation. This itinerary resembles those proposed by mystic authors in some ways. It includes practices that have an ascetic element and alludes to something like a resulting mystical union, for example. Kierkegaard places particular emphasis on the notion that one’s spiritual transformation must lead to action and result in the concrete world. The internal transformation has no purpose if it does not result in something like a divinely revealed task. The task is performed in the material world, but the responsibility to complete it feels absolute, as if imposed by eternity. I argue that the mystical element in Kierkegaard’s authorship is the itinerary he proposes that leads to personal transformation. I suggest that he ultimately goes further than mysticism by valuing the material world and insisting that transformed individuals must take action within it. In this sense, he remains true to his Lutheran upbringing and the idea of inner-worldly asceticism. / L’objectif de ce projet est de déterminer ce qui peut être identifié comme l’ élément mystique dans les textes publiés de Soren Kierkegaard. Dans ses œuvres, Kierkegaard traite le sujet de mysticisme parfois sur un ton critique, autre fois il suggère que c’est un élément essentiel pour une vie véritablement chrétienne. Les articles qui ont déjà exploré cette question ont tiré des conclusions différentes et contradictoires. Certains suggèrent que la spiritualité de Kierkegaard se concentre sur l'ascétisme plutôt que sur le mysticisme, d'autres perçoivent des allusions à une forme « d'union mystique » comme toujours présentes dans ses textes. Certains prétendent que dans les textes de Kierkegaard il y a l'implication de différents types de mysticisme, certaines formes qu'il juge acceptables et d'autres formes qu'il identifie implicitement comme dangereuses ou même démoniaques. Cet article propose que l'élément mystique dans les œuvres de Kierkegaard, au début de sa carrière comme à la fin, est la présence d’un itinéraire destiné à conduire ses lecteurs à travers un processus de transformation interne. Cet itinéraire ressemble à certains égards à ceux proposés par des auteurs mystiques. Il comprend des étapes qui impliquent la pratique ascétique et fait allusion à l'union mystique, par exemple. Ce qui ressort de ses textes est la notion que la transformation spirituelle d'une personne doit forcément conduire à une action dans le monde concret. En insistant sur ce point, il demeure fidèle à son éducation luthérienne. Pour Kierkegaard, la transformation intérieure n’a pas de valeur si elle n'aboutit pas à ce qui semble être une tâche divinement révélée. La tâche est accomplie dans le monde matériel, mais la responsabilité de l'accomplir est absolue, comme imposée par l'éternité.

The high value of good health in Africa and the serious threat to life posed by diseases that plague the African continent including South Africa, are highlighted in this thesis. The question whether the church in South Africa as a stakeholder in human development in Africa, contributes meaningfully to the continental and national vision of "a better life for all" or "good health for all" is posed and an attempt made to answer it. Operating from the Western world-view, the Hervormde Kerk in Suidelike Afrika (HKSA) is found not to be contributing meaningfully to the realisation of the African vision of "good health for all". Resistance to cure and healing by means of Western medicine and pastoral care and counselling as well as a lack of spiritual and numerical growth in the HKSA are identified as consequences of the imposition of exclusively Western Christian theological formulations on the African church. The assumption underlying this thesis is that ministry to the sick in the African mainline churches should recognise the role played by supernatural forces in the belief systems of Africans regarding health and illness. This assumption is based on the fact that theological formulations are socially influenced and constructed. Following Zerfass' methodological model, this research examines the principles underlying the ministry to the sick in the HKSA and the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA); highlights the core African beliefs with regard to the health and illness discourse and practice; points out the shortcomings of the current ministry to the sick in the HKSA. The findings of the investigation into the theological tradition and the results of the exploration of the literature on the African context are brought into the critical dialogue. On the strength of findings of the critical dialogue between the church's traditional theological theory and the results of the exploration of the literature on the African context, the church's healing ministry is recommended as a necessary part of the church's official task in a black South African context. / Practical Theology / D.Th. (Practical Theology)

Das Klinoskop ist die Firmenzeitschrift des Klinikums Chemnitz für Mitarbeiter, Patienten, Angehörige und für unsere Partner. Es erscheint in vier bis fünf Ausgaben pro Jahr in einem Umfang von 40 bis 92 Seiten im Vollfarbdruck. Unsere Firmenzeitschrift wurde seit 2006 von einer qualitativen Mitarbeiterinformation kontinuierlich zu einem relevanten Informationsmedium für unsere Partner wie niedergelassene Ärzte weiterentwickelt. Parallel soll das Klinoskop eine Publikation sein, mit der Patienten und Angehörige einen informativen Zugang zu Ihrem Klinkum Chemnitz erhalten. Damit möchten wir auch unseren Anspruch einer offenen Kommunikation unterlegen. / The Klinoskop is the corporate magazine of the Klinikum Chemnitz for our staff, patients and their family members as well as for our cooperating partners. It is published in full colour, with four or five issues per year, and each issue contains between 40 and 92 pages. Since 2006, our corporate magazine has been continuously refined from a high-quality publication for our staff to the relevant information medium for our partners, in particular physicians in private practice. At the same time, the Klinoskop is intended to be a publication that provides patients and their relatives with more detailed information about their Hospital in Chemnitz. This also helps us to emphasize our intentions of fostering open communication.

Das Klinoskop ist die Firmenzeitschrift des Klinikums Chemnitz für Mitarbeiter, Patienten, Angehörige und für unsere Partner. Es erscheint in vier bis fünf Ausgaben pro Jahr in einem Umfang von 40 bis 92 Seiten im Vollfarbdruck. / The Klinoskop is the corporate magazine of the Klinikum Chemnitz for our staff, patients and their family members as well as for our cooperating partners. It is published in full colour, with four or five issues per year, and each issue contains between 40 and 92 pages.